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NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.14.11

Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we’ll be providing you with all the chatter from around the webosphere relating to what’s going on with the teams still playing. We hope to have these up each morning starting Tuesday, March 15, but don’t kill us if it sometimes slips to the early afternoon.

An intra-state battle between Kenneth Faried‘s Morehead State steam and Louisville is one highlight of the Southwest bracket.

Major props are in order for Saint Peter‘s coach John Dunne, who turned the Peacocks from a group that lost 18 games in a row just three seasons ago into an NCAA Tournament team by taking the MEAC tourney crown.

West

#15-seed Northern Colorado is in the tournament for the first time in its fifth season as a full-fledged D-I school.

The 8-9 matchup between Michigan and Tennessee pits two teams who seem to have alternated extended periods of success. From 1985-1996, Michigan went to three Final Fours, winning the national championship in 1989, but this is just their second tournament berth since 1998. In the same stretch, Tennessee only cracked the field once, but has made eight tournament appearances since 1998.

All week, Connecticut is going to face questions about fatigue from its grueling Big East Tournament run. They draw Bucknell, a team that knows a little bit about upending historical powerhouses in the dance.